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Harriet Friedmann is a specialist on the
world's food system. She and Metta Spencer talk about the
importance of diversity for the future of humankind. We depend on
an enormous range of species, but many of them are dying out
because of industrial agriculture, using monoculture. Harriet has
ideas about how to reverse...

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman reminds Metta Spencer that in previous
wars, few soldiers actually fired their weapons. The military
learned how to train them to overcome their reluctance by using
video games -- the same thing that is training juveniles to kill
schoolmates today, with astounding frequency. He advises:
turn...

We have 12 years to save the world from the worst of global
warming. Carbon sinks are essential—suck carbon out of the air and
sequester it. The British company Carbon Bioengineering is planting
trees all around the world with their drones. They expect to plant
one billion per year soon. But we'll need a trillion...

Walter Dorn is a professor at the Canadian
Forces College, where he teaches military officers. He also does a
lot of work for the United Nations overseas, mainly developing
technologies for peacekeepers' use in the field. He and Metta
Spencer discuss his work and the prospects for various ways of
improving the United...

Theodore Postol, Douglas
Roche, and Sergey Rogov are all deeply
worried because the US and Russia have both declared their
intention of ending the INF Treaty, which banned ground launched,
medium-ranged missiles. It appears that we will have another
nuclear arms race, with risks comparable to the Cuban Missile
Crisis.